JBL
James B. Lansing Sound opened in 1946. From a small machine shop in San Diego County, this company introduced the extraordinary D130 studio monitor, widely considered to be the finest extended-range loudspeaker ever produced. With a four-inch edge-wound voice coil, pneumatically formed aluminum-center dome and Alnico V magnet assembly, the D130 accurately delivered an extremely wide range of frequencies with unequaled efficiency.
After Lansing’s death in 1949, and after years of polite skirmishing with Altec Lansing over marketing rights to the Lansino name, James B. Lansing Sound began selling its products under the JBL brand.
JBL’s Professional business grew rapidly in the 1950s and in the 1990s JBL brought the excitement of movie-house sound home with powerful, custom-installed Synthesis systems, as well as with “one-box” Simply Cinema systems which practically installed themselves. Today, JBL is taking music systems in new directions, with popular multimedia speakers designed for personal computers and, of course, for the iPod.
JBL has always been an engineering company, and like Jim Lansing before them, today’s JBL engineers are committed to professional performance standards and the highest levels of manufacturing quality.